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TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM. J- GOD .A-TSTD OUR COUNTRY. ALWAYS IN ADVANCE.
VOLUMES. . SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 28, 1874. NUMBER42
. IMeu" ,for Love.
v'f ? XI Si I < f 5
AN ENGLISH OIRT/s ALT, AnSOflBINCl
PASSION AND UNTIMELY END.
A vcry? Btr^npo^ glory \vas told nie
fhp> oilier day In n town tint fur from
London there lived a yo'inx lily who
Wat* hatidsomo'l tolernbl v w&ilthv, nn 1
more than usually well educated Mor
father was an invalid; licr mother was
nn insipid, cold and hoarders woman.
Two years ago a physician of London
was called to attend the father; in this
way tho young lady saw him Ho paid
no attention to her ? his mind was en
grossed with his professional duties. A
few weeks ago this doctor, after paying
A visit to his oatient, was somewhit S'ir
jirised by being nskod by the yonna; la
<dy to give her the fnvor of a private in
?terview. She took him into a drawing
?room and led him to tin further end of
lhc apartmant ."Doctoi," sail she,''I
suppose that gentlemen of voik p?'oTiM?
*icn arc nconstoinod to reccivo strange
?cr.nfidcnecs. I havo a confession to
mnkc *to^yiiit7',''^Ic supp fse 1 that th j
impending eon lesion had something to
do with t!:e state of her own health, or
with that of her father, and he begged
her to 'proceed. 'You will however, he
?scarcely prepared for what I n?u about
io say,' she continued. 'But I wish yo i
to hear it. It is now just, two year*
-since I first saw ynu. You Ii-iv ; sea reo
ly exchanged a w >rd with mo hut 1
learned much about ynu. I am not
mistaken in believing that you tiro mi
?married '
'No,' he said, 'lam imt married '
'A lid your i.fft ciions arc uot cngag
<d !
'You se ir :ely h tve the right t? a?k
'that,' said lie.
'Well, then,' she replied, "I will tint
.iirk it. tut I must make to yon my uui
ftssion. I love ynu ?with all my heart
I wish you to marry, nie I liivo I you
from tho first mmmmt I saw you. 1
paid to myself, I will w.iit for two ye in
?if he then speaks to me I will fen ? v
what to say. You havo not spoken; and
now I speak. I say I lovo you with all
kuy heart, you arc necessary fur mo, will
you marry tue V
The doctor, who although not a very
young limn, was twice the age of the
young lady, recovering a littie from h s
surprise tried to.turn tho matter ofl as
a joke; hut the young l.idy was very so
rious.
? ?ij e I* (v i*. [ 1
?Xo.s.iid shCj'jI.a'ui in..very t-oler car
nest. I know all that you may say or
think as to tho indelicacy of my prop ?
sal, but I ciinuot help it. 1 ask you
once more, can you love me, an 1 will
you marry mc!'
'In sober earnest, then,' he roplie 1 , '1
cannot marry you !'
'Then I shall die,' said she, very
calmly and left tho room.
The doctor had hearu people say be
fore this that they should die, au I he
left the house without attaching much
importance to the prophecy, although
wendering greatly at tho other portion
*>f ilits interview.
A lew days alter the young lady was
found dead in her bi d. Two letters
laid upon her dressing lablo. One was
uddiesfred to her family solicitor. It re
called to his mind a promise he had
made her. t? She had gone to sec him,
nud had asked him to m:.kc out for her
a paper transfering the whola of her
property to a person whose name she
would not then givo him. Ho was to
prepare the necessary paper and sond it
to her to fill up the blanks and to sign .
She had done this, and she now too lus
ted tho papers; filled up and signed.
Jivcry penny of her property was given
to the doctor, nod tho solicitor was in
etructed to tuako tho transfer to him to
n.*k no questions and to tu kc no receipt
Tho other letter was to tho doctor. '1
told you I should di \ ' sii 1 she, 'au I
when you rocoivc tfita T ifaull bo dead.
For ten days I have tnkon no food uor
no drink; but that does not kill mc, and
now I havo taken poison. I Imvo no
reproach to make toyuu, but I could
not live without your love. When I
am dead, look at my heo.it. You will
see your unmo there. I have two re
quests (o make of you. Go to my soli
citor and take what ho has for^ou, aud
ihen go off on a holi lay t j It ily for i
few months. The othor request is that
you never ask where I am buried, and
never come to my grave '
There was a post mortem examination i
made oi the young lady's b i ly. On h ;r j
breast, over her he irt, deeply i uprinted
in the flesh, were tho initials of the doe
tor's name. The characters se amo 1 to
have been made there two or three j
years before. They were prob ib!y i n
printed by her own hand on the day |
when she iirst saw htm.
- i mi - - ? -r> in 'i * 1 * ??
The March of Improvement
m
The intelligence that the l.icrniative
? that demon which is always shrieking
its warning note in nearly every by way
of the land ? is about to steam and
whistln bei.ire the gates of two of mil'
ni'tst delightful a not Mit town--, will
bring witli it a cert ain pang to all lovevs
of the picturesque. St Augustine, in j
Florida, and San Anrooio, in Texas,uro
soon to be linked with the oufcar w >rl 1
by ruilrouU, over wlii?H trai is will
daily convey tourists. The romance of
the ride in a rickety volatile thro i.;!i
the rich for Bts and acros< the pil n t.t. i
strewn plains of our winter piradiso"
to the gates of St. Augustini?th*
?'over faithful city,'' of which the Spin
iurd boasted so proudly?gave way, sonic
lime since, tu the ?nromu?tiu horse car;
but now tl.o town i-. to be as easy of
aceo.-s from ilie St. John's river as Long
15:.inc h is Ironi New York. The eh irsii
<>! thchoij jo tr.iey in th ? r ittlio ; stige
i-oaeli tiver the rich plains of Western
Texas, by day past adobe villages tin i
long i xpauses of road, bordered with
m??'i|?tte atid ciiappar..!. and by n'ght
through I!io piTlume-i thickets where
tin: I i taltii.cn and wag?? tiers h v.: kin 1
led their eauip hies, will so.m vanish
before the conviuien'eo of the rap'i
ride from (jal\ust>>ti tu San Antonio in
a J'u'.Iman car. Tin 2;0*0il Oill.i.S be
iwccu N< w York au I the venurahlo city
I torthc eiaiu; surround d ivith its..- u uh
ling ii ml ornate Kr? ciscau missi ins, w I
toioi I.e. completely uo/urol .vita trin
; rails, ami to crisis will cia-dder a visit
i tn the Ala no?one id'tue ums ojlior it
I ?d ol the shrio ?>i of A u.ri.jt i li'j.tfty - -
au iuuispciisitble pleasure
Vet one might almost wish th it it
were not so. It would h.? su sfa i try
"tu know that so u.vhcre in those, i ;i.e i
States there were e inters in which ut
least the ghost of a dea l rj.iiitio pi.st
lingered, tiever to bi frighten j 1 i-vay.
LeCmusj the j resent, with itsbiuzol
crowding au I vulgiriLy, w is kept at, a
Safe distance Hot we liv a in a.i ago "I
Saratoga trunks, quick j ?Ui"utj_,s au 1
vti.-t ambition; and the mass of tourists
doubtless resent it as an i ai a irti'u :ao :
to themselves that. .St. Augustinesh >u! I
have mi long shyly discouraged railroad
entcrpr sj, and they will uo.v to.'.eh tli ij
i Id town a lesson lot her ovor-:o<iJos!
mien. They will crowd the ? !.?.?.: with
new villas, and buil 1 roadways, a I u ;
\vhielt glittering trj jtp ig.js :/til dish ij
side the long lagoon<; they will c'iroa 1
I every thicket and oj.ju >y every site,
they will press in tu u u i . i> th: tags
in winder alongthj beautiful b j ie?i, a id
will perhaps imrry nwiy pi::.: meal an 1
inos.s grown gateway^, thj nil piUud
walls, aal the gi'?.it. fi'.'t itsj ,'. San
Marco the maguilioetit, on .v i >s?-. j laiut
Moorish towers the sunlight of the
beautiful Southern ciimat: hasgiis j.ioJ
lor an hundred years, a a I which st'iin Is
on the hio of forttlicati ins oroeteJ by
the Spaniard. to>>rc than three ec itur
ies :igo Unin.ir hitli it thai the e was
onco a sacrilegious proposition, t i run
thuvbueiuble 'u 11 iiieal i in an 1 e l.iltlUh
u terminal railway statio i o.i its ruins
Aud now that the loo uotivj is eo nt ig
in cainesi, well may the lovers of St.
August!no the lair, the oldest town in
the United States, lor it was settled in
15(55, tremble for the fate of tli'e fust
decaying ruins
When the oiler Mexican families in
San Antonio heard that the rail toids
were t-onn to invade their town, they
prophesied that there would shortly bo
epidemics-, levers, and all manner of tin
cleanness, among the til. Tlioy shrunk
from contact with what seeuied in their
oyet u rude aud not over nice world Homo
where outsido their gates. ?> hat cared
thoy fur the increase of values of their
property '! Had they u jt t'.io ir lovoly
skies, their wonderful streams running
through rich gardens ami along foliage
strewn banks, where stool old.-stone
houses, artistically built ? . II id they
not quaint, narrow streets, with hits
and there something exceptionally (in c
in arc-hit eturo 'I And had they hot tin
comfortable sense of seclusion, s'hioh
prompted them to lie Lzily in the
sliud'.*, and let th<' proud world clatter
outside their charmed circle '! What
need for them of Saratogi trunks, an 1
querulous tourists, and the rout of
fashion ? Could not the consumptive go
soiucwhcro else to be cured; or must
thoy invade the ciruWuiirl dispel th s
t ucliiilitutcill ':'
San Antonio and St. Augustinc con
tain within their limits, and in their
immediate vicinity, sonn; of the most
noted bits of architecture on the contin
ent, hud the linest in the United States.
Yet these are swiftly vanishing, an 1 the
railroads will bring the iuflucuu ta which
will finally cause theui almost entirely i
to ds appear. Theophile Guuticr once
.siid, in his s.id. cynicil way, th it iu
ornate an 1 rich architecture sr; ill to 1?.:
incompatible with a high *titJ of
civilization. One in ly cortiinly bj^i.i
in bilieve that the highly civilized, at
luast of the Americans, havo but little
love for the ruins which their nivsdj -
ccssors loft them as historical Icgieijs;
for tli-y arc doing all thatthsy em to
in od? l iiize even the remotest corners of
our broad domain. The great missions
near San Antonio, on which Kr.iiiciseaa
friars and converted Indians toiled sj
bug and with such goo 1 intent, are
crumbling away with painful rapidity,
in I nue can not help fancying that the
tide ol l-a.-ty foreign modern progress is
frightening ihe.n b.iek to the IjvjI of
the soil from which they sprung. Li
San A utotii? must be transformed Irooi
??; dr< au y and charm ngly antique tawn
into a bustling (ash ion and health re
! .Mot, whore the h ill* invalided will-gu.
j to find renew od Icasj of tile; au I in;
gay to luxuriate iu the ilcTghis of a pur
j feet el i male, let tile missions, whatever
? happens td other rcninauls of the p ist,
ho Mivod. The railroad oiiipmiie'*,
whieh are about to launch molern ism
upon tin- two lu'klcss ancient to vns
, ought to !i : i I i hau Is ? u u subscription
! r.i r. * - ?. n- ? a'id ore for the d?M:ayi i * yet
ip'c i !i I m "rials of the history of this
I ?.jo'.iutry which still exist in Florida and
: exts ? vie York '/Vmiw
Tho Old Pa nip.
-
Near John ivu >x's h mn in Klin
I burgh, sa,s ?.Ii! Dinbary min; Uoaj of
! thos: m is Ivo bj.< sll ip ? I p i co; s) e i u
! nion lure. It is the author of au iusi
I limit suppose 1 to b i characteristii of
Scotch hum >r. There was a woman
[ who w.'is siHpectel of many thefts, but
i no ri'.-Nponsibility c mid b-j fasten : I up
mi her. She liyJ a lover who, froai a
bi'.iu delect," Was ctilled 'Daft Jimmy.
In despair of detecting the woman, the
I police seized on 'Daft Jimmy,' and al
ler a night's cjo?a ml :nt pruc.icd.il to
worn the secret out of him. IJ.lt nil a
sylltblu would ho give until llnrj Were
brought to him the provost ail uiigis
trutes. Those dignitirics, reiliziu^ tlu
import nice of the iutelligj.ie j lost, no
time in coming to Jimmy.
?Now,' s.ii l tho provost, with breath
less interest.
''J hero will tiu harm come to me ':'
asked t'a j traitor.
They .solemnly assureJ hi u that no!
a hair ol his heal shoulJ be harmed
Still he hesitated. Probably because he
was bald, and did not consider tho fi^
uro of speech exactly applicable to the
occasion
Again they assured him that he shoulJ
not suffer.
Ho looked anxiously over their faces
for a moment, and apparently assured
of their sincerity said:
?Yo ken the well uncut fvnox's
house V
'Yes, Jin my,' they rcspondod.
'The sqiia re wan V
'Yes, Jimmy.'
'Do yo ken.the handle V
' Yis, J immy,' (with marked eager
iicss.)
?Could ye lift it V
'Yes, Jimmy,' iu quivering voices.
'Well, go pump it them, for ye'll not
pump me.'
Tho audience dispersed.
Tho Russian Hear From Ionia.
In Detroit, a few day's sinco, as a
policeman was leaning against the walls
of the Detroit and Milwaukee depot, he
was approached by a man about thirty
years bldj whose red face was a good
match for his hair, lie was a little
'Sprung," and ho felt like a steer
touted into a clover held.
"Mister," says he, speaking very con
fidentially to the officer, "I don't wur\t
to get locked up and have my name in
the papers and be lined, but I'm in from
Ionia on a little blowout, and I'd give
a clean tej dollar note to have a little
scrimmage with Fomebody "
'?.You mean you want a light?" asked
t he officer
"That's what 1 mem. I'm ju-t well
ing for a row. I want t'< .stand before
lluce good fellows and have soaio one
give me the word to g> in."
TJJie officer aVii'cd if lie was licivy on
ili'- h^lit, and ho r.nswere 1 :
"Heavy ! I .should sty I was ! Why.
I'm terrible They eall me the Russian
l>ear at home, and the whole towu stands
up and sits down, just as I say."
The officer said it was his duty to dis
courage disorderly conduct, b it in a
case like that, where a man ha 1 co no
120 n iles to get up a row, he felt it his
duty to extend indirect aid. Ho told
the Kassian Hear to go to the corner of
licnjtbico .street, enter some saloon, talk
in ;. vciy loud v< ice, and he'd Sooil have
his Iran ds lull. ?
' That's tue?ti.uih obliged '." cs
claimed the in in, und he walked off.
In about t a nitun'u-t a bay came
running down and said that a mail with
a chewed ear, two black eyes and a
broken iiosj was up there in the ditch.
Tho officer went back with the boy und
ho fpoii came upon the Kussian Dear,
wl?^'w'?- kin: in the nut tor, one leg
ilfublcd back, flood aii over hi n, and
Iiis coat iaj j cd in t very scam.
"i hat's you, is ii'!" asked the officer
:s> ho ] oiled i.t the ii ail's ami. "Well.
? lid you It- d ihat row V
"I'olicomaii,'" replied the man. as he
gained his feet mid looked down tit him
self and felt id his car?"I'olieemaii,
d: ii ; it in.k to you as if 1 did ?"
A Strange People Discovered in
England
llobert Owen's drei in hash:: in; re
ality in the New i' i v't where an el lor ?
ly ?!:idy of wealth and position" has
assembled about 130 men and women
to have the til live as communists. They
occupy thirty one acres, donated for the
nit.st j art by the lady, and, as may
tea lily be supposed, the large majority
ol them are Irotn the poorer classes, and
weie very willing to accept an offer
which assured to them easy times and
full stomachs. The principle on which
the community U based is that rich and
pi or a'tkc shall give up all they \. issass
for the coo inen behoof, j et o ic or two
persons of mean?, surprising as that may
seem, have joined the community and
complied with this condition. No money
is used except as means of buying from
the miter world what the farm will u it
supply, and. as th: farm is u >'? sali :i-> tit
ly productive to feed the community,
it seems evident th it the communists
are using up their capital. While the
great principled of liberty, equality and
Ir tcruity are in force in this earthly
paradise, yet "they am sab .rdinito t >
another principle, that of obedience''
The "mother," as tho patroness of the
institution is called, is supreme, aud her
bidding must be done in all things. She
assigns the tasks and labors of the day,
and at her magic word the whilom tailor
must become a cobbler, and the cobbler
the purveyor of meat. It will be readily
mm that this govornmmt will oocasib h
a precious deal of trouble when the lady
grows old and childish. The flowers,
the sewing, the washing, the house keep
ing and cooking are assigned uO differ
out departments of the sisters, and
everything at present goes like clock
work. All tho women, young and old,
are dressed in plain bodice, short skirt
and trousers, which generally are bo
coming to them. The hair float* at will
down the back. Tho men dress with
the greatest plainness and ncatucss, nnci
u.mic is the chief ait and recreation of
(lie community, which, it should be said ,
holds no new or "advanced" notions on
the marriage question, nnd, therefore,
is not regarded by the neighbors as im
moral and objectionable.
? ?? ? - ? -c?? .
Scraping Fiiiit Trees.
Perhaps October and November are
the two best mouths, and April and May
the next bebt, of the year for scraping
and washing fruit trees?apples and
pears. There is nothing better as a
"wash" with which to scrub the trees
than a preparation of ono pound of
whale oil soap to a large bucket of
water, well dissolved. There is nothing
mote nauseous to the insects than this.
It will lay "cold'' everything we have
tried it on but the eurculio; that, how
ever, cares no more for til c mixture,
even though aoeompauied with sulphur,
lime water and tobacco juiee, than if it
were a giugorly dose of spring wator.
Put rose hugs and the steel-bluo grape
Lugs surrender to its power incontinent
ly, livery farmer au 1 garJeuer ought
to have a supply of this soap on hand
lor use whenever necessary. Apple
j and pear trees, well scrape I and then
washed with the preparation; will not
only be freed from some of the chiel
insects preying upon foliage and fruit,
hut will sensibly feel its invigorating
j effects!
Gray Eyes.
'! he gray eye is; peculiar to the eye of
won en Ami here we meet with a
j variety enough to puzzle Solomon him
self. We wilf pass over in silence the
sharp, the shrewish, the spitelul, the
told, and the wild gray eye; every one
has seen ihicni?too oftru, perhaps. Put
then, again, thcro are some beautiful
enough to drive oue wtd j, and it is only
them which wo mean. There is the
dark, sleepy, almond shaped gray eye,
witli lung black lashes- it goes with the
rarest face on earth ? that Sultan-like
beauty of jet black hair and a com
plcxion that is neither d :rk nor fair?
almost a cream color, if the truth must
be told ? and soft and rieh as the leaf
of the calls) Kthopian itself.
Directly opposite to this is the calm,
clean, grav eye?the eye that rea.-on.i<
when this only feels. It looks you
quietly in the race: it riows you kindly,
; but, alas, disappointedly; passion rir?ly
lights it, and 1 ivp takes the steady
blaze of friendship, when he tries to
hide wilhiu. The owner ofthat eye is
upright, conscientious, and pityin j h is
fellow.men, even while at n loss to
understand their vagaries. It is the
eye for a kind and considerate phy
sician, for a conscientious lawyer (if
such there be), for a worthy village
pastor, a Jrivll-J as faithful as any po)r
bun..!.) being can be.
Last ol the gray eyes comes the most
mischievous; a soft eye with a largo
pupil, that contracts and dilates with a
wind, a thought, or a flash of feeling;
an eye that i aighs, that si^hs almost;
that has its .sunlight, its moon beams,
and its storms; a wonderful eye, that
wins you whether you will or uot, and
holds you oven after it has cist you o'F
No matter whether the face bo-fair or
not, no matter if the features are irree;u
lar and complexion varying, tho eye
holds you captive, and then laughs at
your chains.
?a . i -?
NefTApapJr By-Laws
1 Pc brief. This is tho age of tele
graphs and stenography.
2 Pe pointed. Don't write all around
a subject without hitting li .
3 State facts, l ut don't stop to mor.i
li/.e- It is a drowsy subject. Lot the
reader do his own dreaming.
4 Kschow prefaces. Plunge at onco
into your subject, like a swimmer into
cold water.
5 If you have written a scutenco that
you do not think particularly fine,draw
your j en through it. A pet child is
always the worst in tho family.
G Condense. .Mako suro that you
really have an idoa, and then record it
in the shortest possible terms. Wo want
thoughts in their quintesionao.
7 When your urtiolos is completed
strike out ninc-tonths of tho adjec
tives.
A Quaker Printer's ProYnrta.
Never [tci.d an article for publication
without giving tho editor thy name, lor
thy name oftentimes secures publication,
to woi thless articles.
Thou shouldsb not rap at the door of
printing office; for ho that answereth
the ran'mcerctli in his slcevo and losoth
time.
Never do thoujoaf jibout, nor knock
down the type, or the boys will thoj as
they do tho ; fchade trees,?when thou
leavcst.
Thou shouldst never read ths ?copy
nil the print or-; case or the sharp and
hooked container thereof; or ho niiy
knock thec dewn
Never inquire'of the / editor for'nows,
For behold it is his business to give it
to thee at the appointed time without
asking for it.
Tt is not right that thou shouldst ask
him who is the author of an article, for
it is his duty to keep such things unto
himself.
j When thou dost enter his office, take
j heed unto thyself that thou dost not
j look at what may4couccrn theei^not, for
that is not meet in tho sight of good
breeding.
Neither examine thou the proof sheet
for it is not ready to^ uicct^thino^eye,
thou niayvst un 1 erstand.
Prefer t'oinc own town paper to any
othor, and subscribe lor it immcdiato
ly.
Pay lor it in advance, and it shall be
well with thee and thine. 3
Health Nevcrs.
Never oat hurriodly, becauso it causes
ndi go.-tiou.
Never speak in a hurry, because it is
omiuous of instability.
Never -think on "going to bed; becauso
it makes wakofullaoss.
Never cat between meals, because it
produces irritation.
Never dino in excitutucut,'* because
the blood is called to the brain which
ought to aid digestion.
Never sw a llow to >d without thorough
chewing, because it briugs on dyspep
sia,
Never cat when you do .not want it,
because when you shall want "you cannot
eat.
Never sleep with J your J mouth opcnK
because the air breathed with carbonio
acid disturbs the mucous membranes.
Never go to Vest without^wushiug tho
hands and face, bocau-o more dirt ac
cumulates on tho skin in the day than
night, aud is re-absorbed during tho
night.
Items.
"jjW.hen a servant .was asked, a few
diya since, whore^her mistrcss^who had
gone to a water cure establishment, was
she said, 'She has gone to soak/
The decision of a Boston 3ourt that
if a woman lends money to horjiusband
she cannot get it back, only confirms in
law what has long been held good in
practice.
A man having a bill agiin9ta distant
merchant sent a letter of inquiry to a
banker in tint locality. Tho roply wu
Tie is dead, but he pays now as well as
ho ever did.'
A liberal Ohicigo gentleman has car
ried out the dying wishes of tho late
Bishop Whitehousa of Illinois by pay
ing off tho entire dobt of tho cathedral
in that city and making it porfoctly
frco.
Am. Fon the BeoT.?Dr Johnson
used to say that tha habit of looking at
the b.st sido of every event is bettor
than a thousand pounds a year. Bishop
Hall quaiutiy rein irks: For every bad
there might be a worse; an] when a
man breuks his log, lot him bo thankful
that it was uot his neok ' Whoa Feno
Ion's library was on fire, 'God be prais
ed,' ho exclaimed, 'that it ia not tho
dwelling of somo poor man I' This is
the true spirit of submission, one of tho
most beautiful traits that can possess the
human heart. Hosolvo to see this world
on its sunoy side and you have almo.-t
half won tho battle of lifo at the ou>
sot.